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Jan 27 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
The Mayor of Ridgeland, Mississippi, is demanding a purge of LGBTQ library books in exchange for $110,000 in funding for the local library.

According to the library director, the mayor says the books go against his Christian beliefs. From @nickjudin: mississippifreepress.org/20068/ridgelan…
The mayor of Ridgeland told @nickjudin that he is withholding money because "we found a large number of citizens who have complained about displays of sexual, whatever you want to call it, content."

Still in the library uncontested: "50 Shades of Grey."
mississippifreepress.org/20068/ridgelan…
And remember, we only know about the Ridgeland mayor's efforts to purge the local library of LGBTQ books because of @nickjudin's dogged reporting in @MSFreePress.

This is why it's so important to follow local journalists and support local media.
mississippifreepress.org/20068/ridgelan…
You can support more truth-to-power, paywall free journalism like this by following the Mississippi Free Press @MSFreePress and by donating at mfp.ms/donate.

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Jan 29
NEW: The first Black woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court will be a "beneficiary" of affirmative action and she will "probably not get a single Republican vote," U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, said today.
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Wicker did not raise an objection in September 2020 when then-President Trump vowed to nominate a woman to replace the late Justice Ginsburg.

Instead, Wicker enthusiastically supported Barrett and did not describe her as an affirmative action pick.
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Jan 28
NEW: At the Supreme Court, Mississippi's solicitor general presented a secular case for why Roe v. Wade should be overturned.

But hours later, MS Attorney General Lynn Fitch voiced different ideas.

"God selected this case," she declared. "He was ready."
mississippifreepress.org/20178/god-sele…
If Fitch is right and the U.S. Supreme Court does overturn Roe v. Wade, it will have been Donald Trump who paved the way—boosted by an army of Christian dominionists who believe they are tasked with establishing God's kingdom on earth.
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"Trump comes in and has the support of normal evangelical organizations like Family Research Council, but what he picks is kind of this whole interesting list of pentecostals that I used to call the D-list. He made them the A-list,” says Dr. @AntheaButler.
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Jan 27
"...so we'll get (a) lesser Black woman."

Ilya Shapiro is the director for constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and a Federalist Society lecturer.

He is the chairman of the board of advisers of the Mississippi Justice Institute. screenshot of Ilya Shapiro ...
He says he apologizes for his tweet.
Correction: He used a lower case b in "Black."
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Jan 27
This "extreme voter suppression bill" in Arizona sounds a lot like Mississippi's current election system.

Only one day of voting, no early voting, very limited absentee voting options with an absentee mail voting option that requires TWO notaries.
Oh, and we still have a Jim Crow-era voter disenfranchisement law on the books even though its authors said its purpose was "to eliminate the n–ger from politics."

Today, it bans tens of thousands of residents from voting—most of them Black.
mississippifreepress.org/11705/systemic…
If you're wondering how our election system works in practice:

Confusion, Two-Hour Waits After 2,000 Black, Hispanic Voters Relocated In Ridgeland
mississippifreepress.org/6704/confusion…
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Jan 26
If you don't think that there are any Black women among the most qualified potential Supreme Court picks, it's probably because you're a racist.
Correction: *it's because you're a racist
In addition, you're probably also a misogynist.
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NEW: Christian Dominionists who envision a theocratic takeover of the U.S. government have long sought to remake the nation in their image.

Here's in-depth look at how they set the stage for the end of Roe v. Wade—with a focus on the federal courts. 1/
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They'd drafted a 15-week abortion ban. The goal: Get a state to pass it and defend it all the way to the Supreme Court. 2/mississippifreepress.org/20042/to-rule-…
ADF is a Christian legal organization with Christian dominionist leanings that works through state legislatures and federal courts to enshrine its religious ideas into law.

Its efforts proved vital to getting the Supreme Court to reconsider Roe v. Wade. 3/mississippifreepress.org/20042/to-rule-…
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